The Inconvenience of Easter
Jerusalem, Easter 2008 Easter is an inconvenient holiday. Overshadowed by that other big celebration of the Christian faith - Christmas, Easter is increasingly overlooked in our present culture. It seems that once little children outgrow the desire for new Easter dresses and the fun of an egg hunt, that Easter itself gets put on...
Traveling in the Fog
The year my daughter was born was one of the “traveling in the fog” seasons of my life. An extended period of time when I had to learn to walk by faith and not by sight. For 18 months I had been watching and scanning two growing masses in my thyroid, praying that the medication would shrink them enough to remove the constant...
Questions of Grief
Grief saunters in, uninvited, turning the warmth of summer’s heat cold with winter’s frost. Grief is the unwelcome companion of the death of a loved one. Or the death of a friendship. Or the death of a wish-dream. Grief is stealthy, coming by night in the shadows, catching you off guard. It has a way of cracking...
What am I Leaning On?
Last week I buried my beloved father. The lone bagpiper stood sentry, beckoning us closer, as the familiar strains of Amazing Grace echoed in the open cemetery. The once cloudy skies gave way to a brilliant January sun as we approached my father’s final resting place. The snap of the flag breaks the silence as the Major and the...
It Is Well
Last night I said goodbye to the man who taught me what love is, as my father gently stepped out of this life and into the loving embrace of his heavenly Father. He has always been my rock, my anchor, my safe harbor in every storm. In times of sorrow, in times of joy, my father's faith was unshakeable, as his spirit would declare, "it is well...
Kings Cake and Other Reasons to Embrace Epiphany
(I had intended on posting this last week, on January 6, but ran into delays as I was switching my web hosting.) When my husband and I were living in France, one of our favorite new traditions was the celebration of Epiphany, the Church’s appointed day to commemorate the visit of the Magi to the Christ child. Epiphany falls the...
I’m Bonnie and I’m a hope hunter. I hunt for hope in the hard seasons of life, believing beauty can be found everywhere, even in the brokenness.
On these pages, I write about life in all its beauty and messiness, convinced that hope glimmers even in the darkest of shadows.
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COMING APRIL 2021
